Safe String to BigDecimal conversion

bigdecimal, java, parsing

Solution

Check out `setParseBigDecimal` in DecimalFormat. With this setter, `parse` will return a BigDecimal for you.

Problem

I'm trying to read some BigDecimal values from the string. Let's say I have this String: "1,000,000,000.999999999999999" and I want to get a BigDecimal out of it. What is the way to do it? First of all, I don't like the solutions using string replaces (replacing commas etc.). I think there should be some neat formatter to do that job for me. I've found a DecimalFormatter class, however as it operates through double - huge amounts of precision are lost. So, how can I do it?

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